MOTOR SPORTS NOTEBOOK: SPEEDWAY'S TRAGIC AFTERMATH.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Reports The accident that claimed the life of motorcycle rider Ricky Lundgren Friday at California Speedway The California Speedway is a two-mile, low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California, similar to that of "sister track" Michigan International Speedway. It is located approximately 40 miles east of Los Angeles on the site of the former Kaiser Steel mill. in Fontana was termed ``freak,'' but steps are being taken to avoid any repeat. Details of the two-bike crash were revealed Saturday by speedway president Bill Miller, medical director Dr. Jeff Grange and Ron Barrack BARRACK. By this term, as used in Pennsylvania, is understood an erection of upright posts supporting a sliding roof, usually of thatch. 5 Whart. R. 429. , AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. Pro Racing road racing manager. Lundgren, a 40-year-old from La Mesa, died at Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) is a teaching hospital of Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California, United States. LLUMC is home to the Venom E.R, which specializes in snake bites. as a result of blunt-force trauma to the head and chest. Lundgren was injured on the fourth lap of qualifying for the Supersport race near the end of the first day of the three-day AMA Superbike Challenge at the speedway. It was the second fatality at the 6-year-old facility. Lundgren was struck by an out-of-control motorcycle, which had traveled nearly 180 feet, as he exited turn four on the speedway's road course, an area where the riders race in opposite directions. The switchback switch·back n. 1. A road, trail, or railroad track that follows a zigzag course on a steep incline. 2. A sharp bend in a road or trail on a steep incline. 3. Chiefly British A roller coaster. is separated by approximately 120 feet. In an effort to prevent a similar accident in today's full schedule of racing, Barrick said the AMA would triple the height of the barriers. One barrier, filled with water for the speedway's auto races, is 10 feet long, two feet wide at the base and 3 1/2-feet high. --Purvis holds on: Jeff Purvis won the NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Busch O'Reilly 300, leading only the last six laps under caution after he took just two tires on his final pit stop and was in front when rain ended the race. Purvis was running 10th when the caution flag came out on lap 108 after Kasey Kahne spun out of control at the entrance to pit row. Soon after the drivers had completed their pit stops, rain began to fall again with the caution flag still flying. The race, the start of which was delayed 3 1/2 hours by rain, was finally called with just 116 of 200 scheduled laps completed. When the pits opened after Kahne's spinout spin·out n. An instance of spinning out: a motorist who was injured in a spinout. , dark skies were again threatening Texas Motor Speedway Texas Motor Speedway is a superspeedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas -- the portion located in Denton County, Texas. The track layout is very similar to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor . Purvis' crew chief, Terry Shirley, opted to take just two tires instead of four taken by the rest of the front-runners. Purvis got out the pits first for a race that never went back to green. Michael Waltrip got knocked out of the race when he car was knocked upside down after being clipped by Lyndon Amick's car that was spinning out of control in turn 2 on lap 47. Waltrip went low on the track to avoid Amick but got caught in a crowd of cars with nowhere to go. ``I don't really know what happened. I slowed down and someone ran over me,'' Waltrip said. ``It wasn't scary. The only thing scary is when you can't see and you're hoping you don't hit anything.'' --Force goes for 100th: John Force will go for his 100th career Funny Car victory today in Las Vegas at the NHRA NHRA National Hot Rod Association NHRA Northland Human Resource Association NHRA National Human Resources Association NHRA Nursing Home Reform Act NHRA National Hospice Regatta Alliance NHRA National Heritage Resources Act (South Africa) SummitRacing.com Nationals from the top qualifying position. Force had the 109th top qualifying effort of his career and third of the season with a quarter-mile run Friday of 4.831 seconds at 315.86. Those numbers held up Saturday and Force will face Dean Skuza in the opening round at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, is a 1,200 acre (4.9 km²) complex of four different tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. . Larry Dixon and Ron Krisher also had No. 1 positions. Top Fuel driver Dixon claimed his third No. 1 of the season and 15th of his career when no one improved Saturday on his 4.575 at 325.37. Krisher had his fourth straight top qualifying effort of the season in Pro Stock, clocking a 6.954 at 198.23 that also held up through the second round. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Michael Waltrip's car grinds along on its roof during the O'Reilly 300 in Fort Worth, a race that was run under caution flags and finally ended by rain. Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press |
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